Freedman, The Daily Beast "In Freshwater Road, Denise Nicholas brings alive all the colors and emotions of the civil rights movement during the perilous adventure that was Freedom Summer." - Janet Fitch, White Oleander "Sometimes gorgeous, sometimes terrifying, this novel marks the debut of a talented writer." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Vividly depicts the cost of activism. Whatever the source of her talents, in my reading experience, few books have so artfully entwined a coming-of-age saga with the awakening of moral conscience." - Samuel G. Perhaps Nicholas's experience as an actress is what endowed her writing with its deep understanding of plot and character. conjures an insidious mood of fear and writes with lyrical prose." - Entertainment Weekly "Tensions both physical and psychic inform Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas, which may well be the finest novel about the civil-rights era. Her textured characters unfold against the background of an historic encounter that was destined to change America forever." - Sidney Poitier "Hypnotic. Perhaps the best work of fiction ever done about the civil rights movement." - Newsday (New York) "What a wonderful surprise Denise Nicholas's first novel is. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Praise for Denise Nicholas's Freshwater Road : "Surely the best work of fiction about the civil rights movement since Ernest J.
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